Statement of Financial Position, Assets

The statement of financial position provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company’s resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company’s assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.

Assets are resources controlled by the company as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity.

Assets, Selected Items

Item

Description

The company

Current assets

Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold, or consumed within one year (or the normal operating cycle, if longer). Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.

Applied Materials Inc.’s current assets increased from 2016 to 2017 but then slightly declined from 2017 to 2018.

Property, plant and equipment, net

Amount after accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization of physical assets used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, and furniture and fixtures.

Applied Materials Inc.’s property, plant and equipment, net increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018.

Non-current assets

Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold or consumed after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.

Applied Materials Inc.’s non-current assets increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018.

Total assets

Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are recognized. Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.

Applied Materials Inc.’s total assets increased from 2016 to 2017 but then slightly declined from 2017 to 2018.

Current Assets, Selected Items

Item

Description

The company

Cash and cash equivalents

Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.

Applied Materials Inc.’s cash and cash equivalents increased from 2016 to 2017 but then slightly declined from 2017 to 2018 not reaching 2016 level.

Short-term investments

Amount of investments including trading securities, available-for-sale securities, held-to-maturity securities, and short-term investments classified as other and current.

Applied Materials Inc.’s short-term investments increased from 2016 to 2017 but then slightly declined from 2017 to 2018 not reaching 2016 level.

Accounts receivable, net

Amount due from customers or clients, within one year of the balance sheet date (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer), for goods or services (including trade receivables) that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

Applied Materials Inc.’s accounts receivable, net increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018.

Inventories

Amount after valuation and LIFO reserves of inventory expected to be sold, or consumed within one year or operating cycle, if longer.

Applied Materials Inc.’s inventories increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018.